Armed with a Google trike (think of a three-wheeled bike outfitted with a camera on a shaft), tripods and lots of warm clothing, the team set out across the the roughly 203 square kilometres of Northern-Canadian territory. The project's a collaboration between Google, local residents and Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., a non-profit organization, to allow the rest of the world a peek at what the 1,400 residents of Cambridge Bay get to see on a daily basis.

But fixing Cambridge Bay's map wasn't the only thing Google Canada set out to do. The initiative was also to get locals involved in the curation of their new digital map, part of what Google calls the "Community MapUp," says Aaron Brindle, a member of the team that ventured to Nunavut.

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Mike Pegg, a member with Google rides a trike aside two Cambridge Bay residents